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Life's Corporeal Evolution Develops, Encodes and Organizes Itself: An Earthtwinian Genesis Synthesis

Kosc, Thomas, et al. Thermodynamic consistency of autocatalytic cycles. PNAS. 122/18, 2025. Laboratoire de Biométrie & Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon and École Normale Supérieure Lyon, CNRS bioresearchers enter a strong, quantified, endorsement of how profligate these innate, spontaneous, precursor self-making reactions are as living systems complexified itself on the way to an emergent evolution,

Autocatalysis is seen as a potential key player in the origin of life, and more generally in the emergence of Darwinian dynamics. Here we tackle the computational task of detecting minimal autocatalytic cycles in reaction networks. Overall, by better characterizing the conditions of autocatalysis in biochemical reactions, this work brings us closer to appreciating the collective behavior on the path to the emergence of natural selection. (Abstract excerpt)

Life’s Cerebral Cognizance Becomes More Complex, Smarter, Informed, Proactive, Self-Aware

Rogers, Lesley and Giorgio Vallortigara, eds. Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-Human Species.. Switzerland: Springer,, 2025. The University of New England, Australia and University of Trento, Italy editors are senior definers (search) of this 21st century project to realize and thoroughly quantify the evolutionary occurrence and emergent ramification of complementary hemispheres and their common archetypes. This volume adds the latest methods and evidence such as Lateralization in Invertebrates by Davide Liga and Elisa Frasnelli and Reversals of Bodies, Brains, and Behavior: Quantitative Analysis of Laterality by Douglas Blackiston and Michael Levin.

The chapters in this book cover topics such as measuring lateralization in a range of species by scoring behavior elicited by inputs to one of both brain hemispheres; behavioral studies of motor preferences; neurological methods to reveal lateralization; imaging and new genetic approaches to studying humans and zebrafish.

, . Girard-Buttoz, Cedric, et al. Versatile use of chimpanzee call combinations promotes meaning expansion. Science Advances. 11/19, 2025.. Science Advances. 11/19, 2025. Leibniz Primate Research and MPI Human Cognitive Sciences paleopsychologists including Angela Friederici can now parse these proto-language occurrences of content filled utterances which are then seen to portend our recursive,loquacious linguistics.

Language is a combinatorial communication system able to generate an infinite number of meanings. Nonhuman animals use similar modes to expand content, which suggests an evolutionary precursor to our human capabilities. We tested whether wild chimpanzees used these procedures and found four combinatorial cases whereby bigram meanings were or were not derived from their parts. Such a system in nonhuman animals has never been documented and may be transitional between rudimentary systems and open-ended systems like our own. (Abstract)

Our Earthuman Ascent: A Major Evolutionary Transition in Twindividuality

Liang, Xinyu, et al. Functional divergence between the two cerebral hemispheres contributes to human fluid intelligence. Communications Biology. May 17, 2025. Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Institute for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University and University of York (Elizabeth Jefferies) neuroscientists describe their latest sophisticated imaging studies which further affirm the significance of our double duty cerebral faculty and archetypical hemispheric complements.

Hemispheric lateralization is considered a driving force behind the generation of human intelligence. In this study, we utilize the functional aligned multidimensional representation space derived from functional gradients to compute between-hemisphere distances within this space. We found that both global divergence between the cerebral hemispheres and regional divergence within the multiple demand network. Together, these findings deepen our understanding of bicamerality as a fundamental organizational principle of the human brain. (Excerpt)

Our results reveal an increasing functional lateralization which transitions from unimodal functions (visual, auditory, sensorimotor) to higher-level cognition (social cognition, decision-making). This aligns with established theories linking the left side to language processes and long-term memory and the right to the facial images and visual attention. (7)

Earth Earns: An Open CoCreative Earthropocene to Astropocene PediaVerse

Wunderling, Nico. et al. Wunderling, Nico, et al. Climate tipping point interactions and cascades. Earth System Dynamics. 15/1, 2024. Thirty-two Potsdam Institute for Climate Research and European environmentalists including Jonathan Donges provide an extensive study of what might happen if major local weather zones tipped over to a new phase and in some cascade fashion proceeded to impact each other. See also Tipping in an adaptive climate network model by Tom Bdolach, et al at arXiv:2505.04533 for a latest update.

Climate tipping elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical thresholds (tipping points) under global warming pressures, with substantial impacts on the biosphere and human societies. Frequently studied examples include the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), permafrost, monsoon systems, and the Amazon rainforest. Here, we survey the literature on climate tipping forces and find that many of them are destabilizing. We conclude that tipping points should be studied both in isolation, but also with regard cross-interactions. (Excerpt)

Moallemi, Enayat, et al. Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future.. One Earth. May 20, 2025. In this new Cell journal, we cite this entry by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, Deakin University, Melbourne, Monash University and Cornell University environmental scholars as a good example of a comprehensive, sensible, reciprocal, two do list on the vital way to an Earthropocene Gaiability.

Achieving inclusive human development within planetary boundaries is an urgent and complex challenge. Here, we present nine integrated, theoretically informed and empirically grounded methods through which systemic change can be understood, initiated, and sustained. The entry points we found focus on momentum building, pathways to desirable futures, and the practical change across sectors and scales. This program can support more coherent policy design and inform decision-makers to shape sustainability agendas.

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